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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Medway Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Medway website
2,730 approved · 4,834 refused · 1,617 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 2000 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 13 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Regional Personnel Office Knight Road Strood Rochester ME2 2JE
Received 19 Apr 2010Grenville Pembroke Chatham ME4 4AW
Received 20 Apr 201013 Pelican Close Strood Rochester ME2 2XU
Received 19 Apr 201017 Grant Road Wainscott Rochester ME3 8EE
Received 15 Apr 20108 City Way Rochester ME1 2AB
Received 19 Apr 201064-66 High Street Chatham Kent ME4 4DS
Received 19 Apr 2010220 Nelson Road Gillingham ME7 4LU
Received 12 Apr 2010136 Gillingham Road Gillingham Kent ME7 4ER
Received 19 Apr 2010109 Snodhurst Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 0TB
Received 19 Apr 2010Tesco Courteney Road Gillingham Kent
Received 15 Apr 201020 The Ridgeway Chatham ME4 6PD
Received 19 Apr 2010Land Fronting Commercial Road Car Park Tolgate Lane Rochester Kent ME2 4TG
Received 15 Apr 201090 Pepys Way Strood Rochester ME2 3LL
Received 16 Apr 2010Manor Farm 2 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 7JE
Received 16 Apr 201014 Watts Avenue Rochester ME1 1RX
Received 16 Apr 201095 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PW
Received 16 Apr 2010Land Fronting Commercial Road Car Park Tolgate Lane Strood Rochester ME2 4TG
Received 15 Apr 2010National Grid Grain LNG Importation Terminal Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0AB
Received 15 Apr 201028 Holmside Gillingham ME7 4BD
Received 15 Apr 20101A West Drive Horsted Chatham ME5 9XG
Received 14 Apr 2010BP Oil UK Limited Isle Of Grain Terminal Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester
Received 14 Apr 20108 St Lukes Way Allhallows Rochester ME3 9PR
Received 14 Apr 2010Chatham Dock Chatham Kent
Received 6 Apr 201028 Fleet Road Rochester ME1 2QA
Received 15 Apr 2010Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Medway Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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